Polaris 4: Degeneration Street & Wilderness Heat

The Dears - Degeneration Street
I've always had a peripheral liking of The Dears.  This album continues in that tradition.  I was running a lot to these tunes back in the spring.  I was also writing a lot of hip-hop tunes and lyrics at the times and some part of me loved the connection between hip-hop beats and the beats and grooves on this record.  Especially "Omega Dog."
Love the lyric - "none of us has the guts to bear a cross" from Thrones and I love the peppy jump along guitar of Yesteryear.

Black Mountain - Wilderness Hearts
When I was younger and I would get pissed off I would throw on Nirvana's Nevermind and just fucking rock out on my Fender Squire until all my grungy angst had dissipated.  I started listening to this Black Mountain album after I failed to make the finals at the Canadian National Track and Field champs.  It almost had the same effects.  Well, heavier tracks anyways.  And I thank Black Mountain for that, but when I listened back to the album the parts I cared for were the tunes that sound like they belonged on a Pink Mountaintops record.  All in all I think I wish Wilderness Hearts  was a 5 song Pink Mountaintops ep rather than a sometimes fragmented stoner rock mish mash.

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